EAN: 9783111109244

SUBJECT DEFINITION ACTIVITY - TOMMASO ALPINA KA...

This book offers for the first time a comprehensive study of the reception and reworking of the
Peripatetic theory of the soul in the Kitab al-Nafs (Book of the Soul) by Avicenna (d. 1037).
This study seeks to frame Avicenna's science of the soul (or psychology) by focusing on three
key concepts: subject  definition  and activity. The examination of these concepts will
disclose the twofold consideration of the soul in Avicenna's psychology. Besides the 'general
approach' to the soul of sublunary living beings  which is the formal principle of the body 
Avicenna's psychology also exhibits a 'specific orientation' towards the soul in itself  i.e.
the human rational soul that  considered in isolation from the body  is a self-subsistent
substance  identical with the theoretical intellect and capable of surviving severance from the
body. These two investigations demonstrate the coexistence in Avicenna's psychology of a more
specific and less physical science (psychologia specialis) within a more general and overall
physical one (psychologia generalis).

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